Shell Programming and Scripting

Dear All
I have created customisation appliaction for my application process which look likes below,
364688 ach_outbound -proc nla_acho_equ_01 -format EQUENS0001 [fat] DEQ WAIT
1167452 listener -p 42662 hostget_server -proc at_vld 11874 at_vld [fat] IDLE
1560634 listener -p 11870 menu [fat] IDLE
1843302 rate_server [fat] DEQ WAIT

so now my concern is how can i fetch middle column between process id and [fat] i.e.
my o/p shuould look like
ach_outbound -proc nla_acho_equ_01 -format EQUENS0001
listener -p 42662 hostget_server -proc at_vld 11874 at_vld
listener -p 11870 menu
rate_server

One way:

Code:

root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> cat bla
364688 ach_outbound -proc nla_acho_equ_01 -format EQUENS0001 [fat] DEQ WAIT
1167452 listener -p 42662 hostget_server -proc at_vld 11874 at_vld [fat] IDLE
1560634 listener -p 11870 menu [fat] IDLE
1843302 rate_server [fat] DEQ WAIT
root@isau02:/data/tmp/testfeld> sed 's/^[0-9]* \([^\[]*\).*/\1/' bla
ach_outbound -proc nla_acho_equ_01 -format EQUENS0001
listener -p 42662 hostget_server -proc at_vld 11874 at_vld
listener -p 11870 menu
rate_server

thank you so much.....it's working...fine..but can we right the same in awk...

I bet you can.

thank you so much for your support...i did it